Born on 14 February 1999 in Ózd, Daniel Ali Lugosi started to play the clarinet at the age of 10, and his musical development was assisted by Sándor Horváth, a teacher at the Aladár Rácz Music School in the XVIth district, and by András Horn, Csaba Klenyán and János Szepesi.
As a student at the King Saint Stephen Music High School in Budapest, he participated in the 1st Tibor Dittrich National Chamber Music Festival in 2012, where he was awarded the first prize in the ‘Individual Clarinet Competition’. In 2012, he was awarded first prize at the Fifth Anton Eberst International Clarinet Competition in Novi Sad. In 2013, he was again awarded first prize at the Twelfth National Clarinet Competition for Music Schools.

In 2013, he was admitted to the class for exceptional talents at the Vienna Academy of Music with Professor Johann Hindler.

In 2014, he was awarded third place at the 15th Osaka International Music Competition, and in 2016, in addition to winning his age group, he was awarded the Grand Prix and 5 special prizes.
In the autumn of 2014, in the final of the classical music competition Virtuózok, broadcast by Hungarian Television (MTVA), the jury awarded him first prize in his age group and he also won the Virtuózok Grand Prix, based on the public vote. In 2017, he was awarded the Sándor Benkó Prize.
He has given concerts in Vienna, Austria; Milan, Italy; Miami (Kravis Center, Adrienne Arsht Center), West Palm Beach, New York (Lincoln Center), USA; London (Royal Albert Hall), UK; Toronto, Ottawa (Oscar Peterson Hall), Montreal, Canada; Osaka, Kyoto, Japan; Dublin, Ireland.
Dániel Ali Lugosi plays Buffet Crampon instruments provided by FonTrade.